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Marriage After God

Truth That Transforms Generations w/ Trevin Wax & Thomas Mitchell West

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity, Parenting

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron Smith sits down with Trevin Wax and Thomas West to discuss their new book, The Gospel Way Catechism. Together, they explore the modern challenges facing the church and families as cultural narratives compete with biblical truth. The conversation highlights the importance of discipleship within the home, the role of parents in shaping their children’s faith, and how the Gospel Way Catechism serves as a practical resource for teaching and defending the faith. They also discuss the need for a renewed focus on community, truth, and church revitalization in a culture marked by individualism and confusion.

Takeaways

  • The Gospel Way Catechism equips believers to articulate biblical truth clearly.
  • Cultural narratives often conflict with God’s design for faith and family.
  • Parents play a vital role in spiritual formation and discipleship.
  • The Church must be intentional about countering secular ideologies with truth.
  • Individualism can isolate believers from the community God designed.
  • Catechisms help Christians build a firm foundation of belief and understanding.
  • Discipleship within families strengthens the Church as a whole.
  • Contending for the faith is essential in today’s cultural climate.
  • Church revitalization begins with biblical teaching and faithful leadership.
  • Living out the Gospel in community demonstrates God’s truth to the world.

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Keywords

Gospel Way Catechism, Christian faith, cultural narratives, discipleship, parenting, individualism, church revitalization, countercatechism, truth, faith

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you only really present the Christian faith as it lines up with the cultural sensibilities,

0:05.2

there's no reason to get up and go to church on a Sunday morning for that. I mean, you can get that anywhere, right? Like, what's the, if Christianity is only about, oh, be a nice, good moral person and eat your vegetables, you know, PBS kids will be fine for our kids. You don't really need the gospel, right? Welcome to the Marriage, After God podcast. I'm your host, Aaron Smith, and today I'm thrilled to have an insightful and encouraging

0:23.4

conversation with Bobby Jameson on one of my favorite books of the Bible.

0:27.9

Bobby's senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and author

0:32.2

of Everything is Never Enough.

0:34.3

Bobby, a husband of 17 years and a dad to four kids, shares his journey from

0:38.7

associate pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist to planting a church amid family health challenges.

0:43.4

We unpack how Ecclesiastes exposes life's absurdities, like chasing money, pleasure,

0:49.5

or success, and calls us to receive everything is God's gift. Finding true contentment in him,

0:55.3

from dying to self and ministry and marriage,

0:57.8

to viewing our spouse as divine lots to cherish through daily toil,

1:01.8

this conversation equips couples to pursue resilient joy in Christ,

1:05.5

not fleeting gains.

1:07.0

Whether you're navigating parenting teens or balancing home and calling,

1:10.7

this conversation

1:11.8

is sure to challenge and encourage you.

1:13.6

So please enjoy my conversation with Bobby James.

1:16.8

Trevin Thomas, thank you so much for being on the Marriage After God podcast.

1:19.7

Thanks for having us.

1:21.3

Happy to be here.

1:22.3

Yeah, this is my first time I was mentioning before that I'm recording with two separate people in two

1:28.3

different locations. So this is kind of fun. Usually it's one person or two people in the same

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